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... thought he had already done his part as a writer . " I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a hand- somer compliment ...
... thought he had already done his part as a writer . " I should have thought so too , ( said the King , ) if you had not written so well . " - Johnson observed to me , upon this , that " No man could have paid a hand- somer compliment ...
Page 328
... thought of Lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . Johnson said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much . " Why , ( said the King ) , they seldom do these things by ...
... thought of Lord Lyttelton's history , which was then just published . Johnson said , he thought his style pretty good , but that he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much . " Why , ( said the King ) , they seldom do these things by ...
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... thought a sour surly fellow . " BOSWELL . " Very lucky for you , Sir , -in that respect . " I must however observe , that notwithstanding what he now said , which he no doubt imagined at the time to be the fact , there was , perhaps ...
... thought a sour surly fellow . " BOSWELL . " Very lucky for you , Sir , -in that respect . " I must however observe , that notwithstanding what he now said , which he no doubt imagined at the time to be the fact , there was , perhaps ...
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